Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot forgive his ex-wife (Mary Fickett) for letting herself be seduced, then married by that smooth talker from the State Department (Richard Eastham). The brink is attained when Mary shows up to play tug of war with Bing for custody of their ten-year-old son (Malcolm Brod-rick), a sensitive lad who loves his papa, hates his mamma, and utters sagacities, mature beyond belief, that would help resolve the mess if only the squabbling adults would listen to him. Also giving Crosby daily advice is his lawyer's girl Friday (Inger Stevens), as coy a baggage...
...salesman (Dan Dailey) with a novelty line, who tries it out on a blonde across the aisle (Jayne Mansfield); a couple of harried marrieds who give their boy-crazy daughter (Dolores Michaels) no peace. As the trip starts, the daughter makes a pass at the driver of the bus (Rick Jason), who has just left his wife (Joan Collins) because she drinks too much and smooches too little. Meanwhile, the salesman is pitching for the blonde: "I have depths, honest. I think I have." And back at the depot the highway patrol drops in on the driver's wife...
...Rick's Cafe Americain, whose proprietor wears a white dinner jacket, speaks with a faint lisp, and drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
...Rick has spent his mercenary time running guns to doomed Ethiopia, and fighting, a la Hemingway, with the lost Spanish Loyalists; the romantic's romantic character, someone you would be if you could not, he is haunted by memories of Paris and a very beautiful woman. Bogart is superb...
...Williams sextet's only accomplishment this year has been a tie for first place in the Hamilton Invitational tourney. Dick Lombard, Dave Crook, and Rick Driscoll will make up their starting line, while George Welles and Howie Patterson will make up the defense. Dick Marr will start at goal...